Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Correct.
You've got to pay them whether you like it or not.
Well, or having said that, while you've still got a job, you can afford to pay them.
You might be paring back your spending on discretionary items.
That's where the softness in some of the household spending has occurred.
So we're still spending on some of those things.
And the other thing is that too, and this is where there's been some really interesting disaggregated data on this, that people in the older cohorts, the boomer set, who own their house without a mortgage,
who have savings and term deposits are actually celebrating high interest rates because they're getting more money on their term deposits.
Their house is worth a fortune, even though it's come off a little bit in value in the last couple of months.
And they're the ones that are fueling and underpinning some resilience in spending.
So it's the young folk, the people with a mortgage, they're the ones that are under huge financial pressure.
It's the old folk, I'll put my hand up to this, I plead guilty, that's hanging in there okay.
It does.
It's the stuff that we, it's the goods that we export and import.
So in simple terms, this is going to be a big generalisation.
We export lots of resources and agriculture and tourism and education services.
That's part of the services economy.
But on the good side, it's mining output, farm output.
We import cars, machinery, computer equipment, TVs, and all those things that we don't make in Australia.
So that's basically the balance of trade, broadly speaking.
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